Swear Word Quotes

• County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

  Bill Watterson

  Library, Needs, Definitions

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• Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

  Bill Watterson

  Disappointment, Calvin And Hobbes Friendship, Harder

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• Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

  Richard Harris

  Jesus, Use, Swear

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Writing, Speech, Abbreviations

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• The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

  John Denham

  Men, Civilization, Abuse

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• With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

  Ray Bradbury

  School, Intellectual, Swimmer

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

  Billy Connolly

  Sorry, Language, Music Is

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• When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.

  Sarah Silverman

  Dad, Laughing, Would Be

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• I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.

  Clint Eastwood

  Years, Swear, Stills

  Interview with Clint Eastwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2011.

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• I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.

  Irene Dunne

  Things In Life, Use, Swear

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• But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined

  Irene Dunne

  Use, Said, Screening

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• Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Years, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It's crazy and fun and very flattering.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Crazy, Years

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• Xenophilius Lovegood," he said, extending a hand to Harry. "My daughter and I live over the hill, so kind of the Weasleys to invite us. I think you know my Luna?" he added to Ron."Yes" said Ron. "Isn't she with you?""She lingered in that charming little garden to say hello to the gnomes, such a glorious infestation! How few wizards realize just how much we can learn from the wise little gnomes - or, to give then their correct names, the Gernumbli gardensi.""Ours do know a lot of excellent swear words," said Ron, "but I think Fred and George taught them those.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Daughter, Garden

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• To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First, make the commitment to erase such words from your vocabulary. Next, if you slip and say a swear word or a substitute word, mentally reconstruct the sentence without the vulgarity or substitute word and repeat the new sentence aloud. Eventually you will develop a non-vulgar speech habit.

  L. Tom Perry

  Commitment, Vocabulary, Practice

  "Thy Speech Reveals Thee". L. Tom Perry's speech at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. August 1986.

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• There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

  Jordyn Wieber

  Girl, Role Models, Roles

  "Gymnast Jordyn Wieber on Staying Focused and Crushing on Justin Bieber". SELF interview, www.self.com. June 27, 2012.

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• "Immigrant" has become a dirty word. It is not a bad word. It's not a curse or a swear word. It's not a dirty word and it's nothing to be ashamed about. I am proud to be a second generation immigrant. I am proud of my heritage. We are all immigrants and we need to start owning the concept.

  Nadine Shah

  Dirty, Proud, Ashamed

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

  John Ratzenberger

  People, Different, Would Be

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• They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.

  Gertrude Bacon

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

  Paul Theroux

  Limits, Social, Persons

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• The key is that I'm always relevant. Some of these comedians have nothing to say. They don't have any ideas so it's "F" this and "F" that. They give you a whole series of swear words and it's really just a way for them to get themselves out of trouble when they can't come up with anything. They're irrelevant and ridiculous.

  Jackie Mason

  Ideas, Keys, Giving

  Source: spectator.org

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• I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan.

  Peter Jacobson

  Memorable, Long, Fans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Holy [Insert your choice of a swear word here]," said Fang stunned.

  James Patterson

  Choices, Maximum Ride, Holy

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• Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.

  John Perry Barlow

  Art, Praying, Holy

  "The Next Economy Of Ideas". www.wired.com. October 01, 2000.

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• I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth

  James Patterson

  Angel, Years, Mutants

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